Must being in love always mean being in pain?
ALAIN DE BOTTONI feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
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Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
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A good half of the art of living is resilience.
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At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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